Senior Datadog Security & Observability Engineer

Experteer Overview As a Senior DataDog Engineer, you’ll scale and harden Keeper’s Datadog-based security observability. You’ll partner with Security, Infrastructure, SRE and Engineering to ensure logs, metrics and signals drive real-world threat detection. You’ll design detection rules and telemetry pipelines to improve alert quality and incident response. This role offers impact across production and corporate environments and a chance to shape security observability at scale in a fast-growing cybersecurity company. Compensation / Benefits * Own and improve Datadog Cloud SIEM, security monitoring, and observability across production and corporate environments * Design, build, and maintain detection and telemetry capabilities across Datadog, SentinelOne, Wiz and related security platforms * Develop, test and tune high-fidelity Datadog detection rules aligned to threat scenarios * Improve alert quality by reducing false positives and noise * Design and maintain Datadog log pipelines, processors, parsing rules, facets, indexes, archives and retention strategies * Implement and mature detection-as-code practices for scalable rule management * Define and enforce logging, telemetry, and instrumentation standards across cloud, applications, endpoints and identity systems * Build and optimize log ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and routing workflows * Automate onboarding of new telemetry sources and improve visibility across environments * Correlate signals across multiple platforms to enhance detection depth and investigation quality * Partner with Security Operations to improve triage workflows and incident response readiness * Build Datadog dashboards, monitors, analytics and reporting for decision-making * Map coverage against MITRE ATT&CK and identify telemetry gaps * Conduct detection gap assessments and evolve use cases with threat intelligence * Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, product and compliance teams to strengthen secure logging and observability * Leverage AI-assisted tools to support query development, detection engineering, investigations, automation and documentation Tasks * 4+ years of Datadog experience in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, security engineering, and security observability * Hands-on production experience administering and engineering Datadog in complex cloud environments * Strong experience with Datadog Cloud SIEM, Log Management, Security Monitoring, dashboards, monitors and alerting * Experience designing and maintaining Datadog log pipelines, processors, parsing rules, facets, indexes and retention strategies * Experience building, testing and tuning detection rules, correlation logic and investigation workflows in Datadog * Strong understanding of security telemetry across cloud, endpoint, identity and applications * Experience with log parsing, normalization, enrichment and pipeline management * Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native infrastructure * Proficiency with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell or similar languages * Experience using Datadog APIs, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools * Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework * Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure and application telemetry * Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across Security Operations, Engineering, Infrastructure and SRE * Willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively Key requirements * Medical, Dental & Vision * Employer Paid Life Insurance * Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance * 401K (Roth/Traditional) * Generous PTO * Above market annual bonuses

security * Leverage AI-assisted tools to support query development, detection engineering, investigations, automation and documentation Tasks * 4+ years of Datadog experience in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, security engineering, and security observability * Hands-on production experience administering and engineering Datadog in complex cloud environments * Strong experience with Datadog Cloud SIEM, Log Management, Security Monitoring, dashboards, monitors and alerting * Experience designing and maintaining Datadog log pipelines, processors, parsing rules, facets, indexes and retention strategies * Experience building, testing and tuning detection rules, correlation logic and investigation workflows in Datadog * Strong understanding of security telemetry across cloud, endpoint, identity and applications * Experience with log parsing, normalization, enrichment and pipeline management * Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native infrastructure * Proficiency with scripting or aaaaaaa and using Python, PowerShell or similar languages * Experience using Datadog APIs, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools * Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework * Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure and application telemetry * Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across Security Operations, Engineering, Infrastructure and SRE * Willingness to use AI-assisted tools effectively Key requirements * Medical, Dental & Vision * Employer Paid Life Insurance * Voluntary Short/Long Term Disability Insurance * 401K (Roth/Traditional) * Generous PTO * Above market annual bonuses